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"The Talisman in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin" is an article from Modern Language Notes, Volume 34. View more articles from Modern Language Notes.View this article on JSTOR.View this article's JSTOR metadata.You may also retrieve all of this items metadata in JSON at the following URL: https://archive.org/metadata/jstor-2915576 Source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2915576

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LibriVox recording of The Magic Skin, by Honoré de Balzac. [if appropriate: Read by James E. Carson. Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote "criticisms" of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition to hyping the work before it even came out. It is a criticism of materialism and French bourgeoisie as so many of his compiled works seek to be. Some same characters... Topics: LibriVox, audiobooks, literature, French societal satire and commentary Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text